Corvid Crossroads > Corvid's Quotes

“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it's all a male fantasy: that you're strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren't catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride

“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Mrs Dalloway is always giving parties to cover the silence”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I prefer men to cauliflowers”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I feel more like a person than ever because
I'm starting to hate myself”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I’m old because I’m not dead”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“if you feel alone in the world

find someone to worship you”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I watch their hands as they walk away

hands that could be grabbing bottles and throwing but instead are wrapped together and connected”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“it's okay

old is fine

I'm old because I"m not dead”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I have so much language in my brain

and nowhere to put it”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“any sec I could step off a cliff

I think I've always felt this way

the smoke makes it clear”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“this is too much

the shudder inside becomes unbearable

I can't eat everything I'm afraid of”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“a father to a kitten is an absence

a grown cat to a father is a threat”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“the stillness now is not the stillness before”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“this may be their town but we all live in scare city”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I can't fix this

I have no idea what it's like to be a person and to be confronted with a me”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I wonder if I'd been brave enough and tried to cross first

would he have found my body

or if we'd crossed together would we both have made it”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“my mother was very kind

her bloodthirst was insatiable

she taught me how to snap a neck with my jaws

why would I ever leave her”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“my eyes

I like to think the man who ran will remember my eyes

always”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“what they see makes them point or stop and turn and put their hands on their hips and breathe deep but the distance they love is an out of focus blur when I try to look where they're looking

all I can see is what's right in front of me”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I'm not sure what a scare city mentality is

but I have it”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I think of all the nights we'll spend together

this man and his guts and me”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“I try to understand people but they make it hard”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat

“she sees the dead man and she sees that I made him that way and her fists clench and she shudders like an earthquake

we meet for the first time

hello little slaughter

this is what a goddess looks like”
― Henry Hoke, Open Throat